ArchiCAD Structural Grid useless

[Electric Flute]

I think "Structural Grid" under Tools menu is the most useless tool Graphisoft ever created. It has potential to be a very handy one, but not as is actually now.
Structural Grids should be automatically inserted along current wall/posts in a project like "Automatic Dimensioning" does.
Please Graphisoft beware that projects are not always a perfect square/radial grid!

Any thoughts?

[TomWaltz]

I have a strong suspicion that the BGArchicad/Live Linking problems are specific to Macs on a network. Most single-user Macs and all Windows users tell me it's fine. The ones who have big Apple networks though....

[Chazz]

gbley wrote:
The beauty of ArchiCAD is having it do the production heavy lifting in the background.....I just want to design while ArchiCAD and Plotmaker get dirt under their nails.

This is actually the thing I worry about with AC10. So now we'll have PM inside AC. That sounds great on marketing collateral but does this mean that doing a big (linked) update will tie up AC10? So now you have to run a second instance of the app to get any work done? Sounds like a step backward to me. Doing layout in a separate application always seemed appropriate and made intuitive sense to me.

wise wrote:
If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:
I have a strong suspicion that the BGArchicad/Live Linking problems are specific to Macs on a network. Most single-user Macs and all Windows users tell me it's fine. The ones who have big Apple networks though....

No so Tom. I have a Windows based client who had the file linking problems show up on their first project around late DD. We switched to publishing PMKs and they were all happy again. (Especially with the speed and flexibility it affords.)

Andy Thomson might have something to add to this. He is at a big Windows based firm in Toronto and AFAIK they have been using PMKs. I am not sure if this was a response to problems they were having, or simply something Andy set up considering the problems we went through together out here (at a Mac based office).

[Haneef Tayob]

I recall the wish for revamping the structual grid being in the wish list a while back.
I've seen another cad program where if one adjusts the structural grid, associated walls and columns move with it. A similiar process applied in section, where moving the structural grid up or down, resulted in the associated slabs, walls, etc moving with it.

[TomWaltz]

Haneef wrote:
I recall the wish for revamping the structual grid being in the wish list a while back.
I've seen another cad program where if one adjusts the structural grid, associated walls and columns move with it. A similiar process applied in section, where moving the structural grid up or down, resulted in the associated slabs, walls, etc moving with it.

Gee, that sounds an awful lot like what Building Information Modeling and Parametric Buildings is all about.... I like it!